Seoul City Amazones Women's Football Club (Korean: 서울 시청 아마조네스 여자 축구단), also known as Seoul City Hall WFC, is a South Korean women's football club based in Seoul.[2] The club competes in the WK League, the top division of women's football in South Korea, and plays its home games at the auxiliary pitch of the Seoul World Cup Stadium.
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| Full name | Seoul City Hall Amazones Women's Football Club 서울 시청 아마조네스 여자 축구단[1] | ||
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| Founded | 2004 | ||
| Ground | Seoul World Cup Auxiliary Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 1,012 | ||
| Owner | Seoul Metropolitan Government | ||
| Manager | Yoo Young-sil | ||
| League | WK League | ||
| 2025 | Regular season: 2nd of 8 Playoffs: Runners-up | ||
| Website | seoulsports.or.kr | ||
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History
editIn 2003, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced its plans to establish a professional men's football club and a women's works football club the following year.[3] Seoul City Hall WFC was formally founded in February 2004 with a squad of 22 players, including nine members of the South Korean national women's team at the time.[4] The club's first manager was Seo Jung-ho.[5] The club won its first tournament in September 2004, beating INI Steel and Daekyo Kangaroos to the top spot in the league-format Unification Cup.[6] The club was one of the founding members of the WK League in 2009.[7]
Seoul was at the centre of a controversy in 2013 when representatives of the other six clubs in the WK League claimed that striker Park Eun-sun was male and threatened to boycott the league if Park did not undergo a gender verification test.[8] The club stood by Park, accusing their rivals of violating her human rights and suggesting the allegations were merely a ploy to gain a competitive advantage by keeping Park out of the league, who had scored 19 goals in 22 games.[9] Although the National Human Rights Commission advised the Korea Football Association to punish the coaches of the other teams, neither the KFA nor the WK League acted on the recommendations, and as a result, Park left Seoul to join FC Rossiyanka.[10]
Current squad
editNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Coaching staff
edit- Manager:
Yoo Young-sil - Coaches: Yoon Sung-hwi, Yoo Young-a, Ahn Tae-hwa
- Playing coach: Lee Yoo-jung
- Medical trainer: Yang Yoon-mi
Source: Official website[11]
Honours
editSeason-by-season records
edit| Season | WK League regular season | Position | Playoffs | ||||||
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| P | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts | |||
| 2009 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 27 | 25 | 29 | 3rd | Did not qualify |
| 2010 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 23 | 32 | 23 | 4th | Did not qualify |
| 2011 | 21 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 19 | 26 | 24 | 6th | Did not qualify |
| 2012 | 21 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 26 | 29 | 24 | 5th | Did not qualify |
| 2013 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 34 | 26 | 40 | 2nd | Runners-up |
| 2014 | 24 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 29 | 29 | 36 | 3rd | Semifinals |
| 2015 | 24 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 28 | 61 | 15 | 6th | Did not qualify |
| 2016 | 24 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 33 | 48 | 26 | 5th | Did not qualify |
| 2017 | 28 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 40 | 43 | 41 | 4th | Did not qualify |
| 2018 | 28 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 34 | 57 | 21 | 6th | Did not qualify |
| 2019 | 28 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 26 | 63 | 15 | 7th | Did not qualify |
| 2020 | 21 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 20 | 49 | 13 | 7th | Did not qualify |
| 2021 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 28 | 44 | 30 | 4th | Did not qualify |
| 2022 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 32 | 43 | 22 | 5th | Did not qualify |
| 2023 | 21 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 38 | 19 | 7th | Did not qualify |
| 2024 | 28 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 33 | 44 | 27 | 6th | Did not qualify |
| 2025 | 28 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 48 | 28 | 54 | 2nd | Runners-up |
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ "서울시청 아마조네스 여자축구단" [Seoul City Hall Amazones Women's Football Club] (in Korean). Korea Women's Football Federation. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ "Veteran striker Park Eun-seon wants one more shot at the World Cup". Korea JoongAng Daily. 5 June 2023. Retrieved 6 November 2025.
- ↑ "서울 프로축구팀 내년 창단" [Seoul pro football team to be founded next year]. Kyunghyang Shinmun (in Korean). 3 September 2003. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
- ↑ "서울시, 여자축구팀 창단.. 국제대회 추진" [Seoul City establishes women's football team.. headed for international competitions]. KBS News (in Korean). 23 February 2004. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
- ↑ "서울시 여자축구단 창단감독에 서정호씨" [Seo Jung-ho appointed founding manager of Seoul City WFC]. Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). 3 December 2003. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
- ↑ "서울시청, '통일대기 여자종별축구대회' 일반부 리그 우승" [Seoul City WFC league champions in senior division of Unification Cup women's football tournament]. Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). 5 September 2004. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
- ↑ Kim, Sung-won (27 November 2011). 여자축구 실업 WK-리그 출범..올스타전 포함 총 63경기 치르기로 [Women's works football league WK League launched.. 63 matches including all-star game] (in Korean). Chosun Ilbo. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
- ↑ "South Korean teams issue boycott threat in gender test row". BBC Sport. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
- ↑ Yoo, Jee-ho (7 November 2013). "Women's football team accuses rivals of violating human rights in gender identity controversy". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
- ↑ Kwon, Sang-soo; Song, Ji-hoon (21 July 2014). "Amid sex test drama, Park goes to Russia". JoongAng Ilbo. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
- 1 2 "선수단 및 스탭 상세소개" [Players and staff] (in Korean). Seoul Sports Council. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ↑ Seoul City Amazones WFC [@amazones_seoul]; (20 March 2026). "2026 SEASON SQUAD NUMBER" (in Korean). Retrieved 10 April 2026 – via Instagram.
External links
edit- Official website (in Korean)